[intro] Whispers rise from the riverbend Where the reeds remember me A name once sung by softer tongues Now scattered on the sea [verse 1] I built my world with crooked hands In gardens no one tends Where sunlight spilled like secrets told And time would never end My mother’s voice, a lullaby Too quiet now to find She brushed the dark out from my eyes With a warmth she left behind [chorus] Take me back to barefoot mornings Fields of gold and skies unscarred To the hush between the heartbeats Of a world that wasn’t hard To a father’s shadow tall and steady To a sister’s endless song To the place I lost forever But I’ve been missing all along [verse 2] We chased the dusk with wooden swords On kingdoms drawn in chalk The laughter in her sideways glance Still echoes in my walk My father’s hands could fix the stars When they trembled in their frame Now I reach for ghosts in summer rain And call them by their name [chorus] Take me back to barefoot mornings Fields of gold and skies unscarred To the hush between the heartbeats Of a world that wasn’t hard To a father’s shadow tall and steady To a sister’s endless song To the place I lost forever But I’ve been missing all along [bridge] Time, you thief in linen robes You never slammed the door Just dimmed the flame and slipped away Like silence on the floor Now every dream’s a faded thread In a quilt I cannot mend But I’d trade tomorrow’s glory Just to live it all again [final chorus] Take me back to barefoot mornings Fields of gold and skies unscarred To a mother’s arms that held the thunder To a sister’s fearless grin To a father’s eyes that saw me When the storm began to spin I was safe, I was small Didn’t know I had it all [outro] Ashes on the wind Calling softly to the past Where the love I didn’t know I’d need Was never meant to last Whispers on the breeze
